This postgraduate diploma offers a complete vision and training for psychiatric treatment, from an integral and multifactorial vision of the human being" 

Psychosis is associated with more rapid deterioration of dementia and affects nearly half of the people worldwide living with Alzheimer's disease. Before initiating drug treatment, the risks and benefits should be weighed. This program addresses the personalization of psychiatric treatment, taking into account comorbidity, possible interactions with concomitant treatments and primary symptoms that may be the cause of other SPCD.

The student who completes this program will acquire the necessary knowledge to offer their patients a more effective and quality treatment, through numerous techniques that work precisely from the place where the conflict is generated, the mind. The syllabus covers the main current topics in psychosis and dementia in the medical field, so that whoever masters them will be prepared to work with patients affected by these pathologies.

Also, since it is an online training, the student is not conditioned by fixed schedules or the need to move to another physical location. You will be able to access the content at any time of the day, balancing your work or personal life with your academic life.

This degree is a real learning tool to approach specialty topics in an up-to-date, objective and judgmental way"

The postgraduate diploma in Psychiatric Treatment of Psychosis and Dementias  contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in psychiatric treatment of psychosis and dementia
• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

You will be able to access multimedia content elaborated with the latest educational technology that will allow the professional a contextual and situated learning"  

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

Expand your knowledge thanks to a simulated environment that will provide you with an immersive learning experience to train you in real situations"

You have before you a unique opportunity to specialize in a sector with a high demand for professionals"

The main objective of this program is to instruct the graduate to be able to define the limits of the use of psychiatric treatments in order to safely manage the patient with psychosis and/or dementia, so that they can make the appropriate decisions to use it in a preventive and psychotherapeutic way. This postgraduate diploma develops a theoretical-practical learning, so that the student gets to master in a practical and rigorous way the intervention through diagnosis and subsequent treatment.  

This up-to-date program will generate a sense of confidence when practising medicine which will help you grow both personally and professionally” 

General Objectives

• Master the current knowledge on medication used in psychiatry and neurology
• Training to achieve the Therapist-Patient-Medication link
• Identify the absorption properties of medication
• Develop proficiency in pharmacodynamics
• Describe in protocols the intervention programs, taking into account the characteristics and specific aspects of medication taking
• Identify the evolution of the different disorders listed in the DSM-5 or ICD-10
• Master the fields of physician-psychologist interaction in family intervention
• Train the professional on all the updated references on the diagnosis, intervention and therapeutic process in order to interact with the medication
• Describe with decision protocols the individualized study of family members to perform a rigorous psychopathological study
• Use decision trees to make a permanent differential diagnosis
• Frame all the information within a multidisciplinary framing model in the study of the biopsychosocial framework of the psychotherapy-pharmacology relationship

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Classification of Psychotropic Drugs

• Identify study methods to demonstrate that the drug has utility
• Discover the legal procedures for the use of the drug
• Describe the harmful links between drugs
• Use knowledge about the side effects of drugs so that they do not hinder the intervention in psychotherapy
• Describe the beneficial effects of the drug
• Master the adverse effects and toxicity of the drug
• Use knowledge about the side effects of drugs so that they do not hinder the intervention in psychotherapy

Module 2. Pharmacotherapy of Psychosis and Dementias

• Learn the side effects of medication for Alzheimer's disease
• Differentiate and frame the disorders of a psychotic systemic disorder
• Describe and master the clinic of schizophrenia according to the theory of communication and double bind
• Perform and adapt pharmacological intervention protocols within an interdisciplinary framework of psychosis
• Address the clinical use of medication in patients with dementia
• Develop the intervention with the drug according to the mental logic of the different age groups
• Master and manage the differential characteristics of psychological pathologies

A unique specializacion program that will allow you to acquire advanced training in this field"